What are the best conservative movies of the past 25 years ?

HOTAIR.COM ^ | Jan 15,2009 | Ed Morrisey

[SeekAndFind]

Why isn't THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST included ?

[SeekAndFind]

Some people would include FORREST GUMP in the list but many other conservatives disagree. I’d like to hear both sides of the issue.

[JRandomFreeper]

"The Postman"

/johnny

[RandyGH]

What about “Hanoi Hilton?”

[2banana]

Many John Wayne movies...

[2banana]

Many Clint Eastwood movies...

[Hegemony Cricket]

Hmmmm. Scroll back one more year to 1983 and catch “Uncommon Valor”. Great movie, IMHO.

[Emmett McCarthy]

Not in the last 25 years, I think.

[Mr. Mojo]

This list only covers movies from the last 25 years.

[joejm65]

Call me crazy, but Field of Dreams should be on the list. It honors both baseball AND fathers. Can’t get more true-blue American (and conservative) than that. :-)

[muleskinner]

The Postman was not included because it was an embarrassment to moviedom.

[SeekAndFind]

I would like to add the following to the list :

Patton ( May be too old to make the 25 year cut )
The Pianist
We Were Soldiers
Defiance
Black Hawk Down
The Patriot
Life Is Beautiful
Bella
and the latest one from Clint Eastwood -— Gran Torino

Also, would anyone want to include Spider Man 1 in the mix ?

[CounterCounterCulture]

Bella
Expelled
End of the Spear

[SeekAndFind]

Many John Wayne movies...

Only the last 25 years my friend. If we included every movie since the beginning of film history, we'd have to include hundreds of films made prior to the Boomer generation.

[Revolting cat!]

Kill the Commies (an independent Bollywood production with singing and dancing.)

[Mr. Mojo]

Patton is one of my all-time favorite films. (It was released almost 40 years ago).

[CounterCounterCulture]

Stand and Deliver (1988)

[razorback-bert]

The Great Escape

[Vince Ferrer]

Barbershop

A "coming of age" story about the son of a deceased barber, who takes over then sells his father's barbershop, but not before he learns to understand how his father could run the business day after day for his family.

Gattaca

In a future where the genetically engineered are given preference and the natural born are stopped from succeeding at birth, a naturall born man does not accept the fate society has in store for him, and pursues his own dreams.

Pursuit of Happyness

A man tries to better himself against nearly overwhelming odds to provide for his son.

[SeekAndFind]

I’d like to include THE MISSION: Robert DeNiro and Jeremy Irons team up to make a tour de force about human freedom vs. human oppression in South America, as Catholic Church abandons Christian natives to Portuguese slavers because it’s politically expedient.

THE UNTOUCHABLES seems like a good conservative movie. It celebrates bravery, duty and anti-corruption. Sean Connery was absolutely brilliant in that movie as the incorruptible cop. Needs to be watched again in light of what’s happening in Chicago today.

[JRandomFreeper]

I could have said "Silent Running".

/johnny

[Tanniker Smith]

Team America winds up providing one of the best explanations of why we need people willing to fight terrorists and tyrants … which I can’t quote here.

Kinda says it all.

[SeekAndFind]

The Great Escape

TOO OLD. Doesn't make the Last 25 years cut.

[SeekAndFind]

Team America winds up providing one of the best explanations of why we need people willing to fight terrorists and tyrants

The problem with this movie is it pushes crassness, toilet humor and other things conservatives dislike to the disgusting limit in order to ridicule the Hollywood crowd.

[Fu-fu2]

Idiocracy—Amusing portrayal of the future if we continue down the current pop culture secular trail....

[HangnJudge]

If I may roll it back 40 Years

To Sir with Love - 1967

Personal responsibility
Respect for authority
Grace under fire with race baiting

The Lord of the Rings (all of them)
The Passion of Christ

Those 4 movies drastically outshine all others
in the last 25 years

[stainlessbanner]

Glory and Gettysburg were lacking.

Gods and Generals....however.....excellent

[wally_bert]

TA got a lot right even though I had to fast forward through the one really super offensive scene.

Matt Damon.....

[Pelagius of Asturias]

Tears of the Sun. Navy SEALs take up a larger mission. Take a stand against Genocide and safeguard the last best hope for Freedom amidst inhumanity.

Rambo IV. I’ve always liked Rambo but Rambo IV is icing on the cake. Get rid of the gory battle scenes and it still stands out. Rambo gets Redemption, fights a cause of his own choosing and takes a stand against tyranny.

Would Live Free or Die Hard fit the bill?

[JRandomFreeper]

I blanked on the 25 year part. Thought it was the top 25 ever.

Since I've only watched kids movies and 'Postman' in the last 25 years.... "Antz".

[seowulf]

Unforgiven

[SeekAndFind]

OK, would you consider Sylvester Stallone’s — Rocky a conservative movie ?

[TheConservativeParty]

One of my favorites, and my husband and I quote from Forrest Gump all the time. We even named our puppy Forrest, since we got him when the movie was out and we couldn’t come up with a great name, we decided Forrest would be a great name, and it was. AND that dog “was a runnin’ fool”.

[Pelagius of Asturias]

Oh, and I consider the new 3:10 to Yuma a conservative flick.

[lilylangtree]

Dirty Dancing

[roses of sharon]

Team America winds up providing one of the best explanations of why we need people willing to fight terrorists and tyrants … which I can’t quote here.

Can someone tell me what this answer is?

Thanks!

[donna]

Blast From the Past (1999)

[Tanniker Smith]

Team America winds up providing one of the best explanations of why we need people willing to fight terrorists and tyrants … which I can’t quote here.

yes, but it does it in a pretty funny way. granted, not for everyone.
and to repeat something I told someone at a church function years ago (probably during South Park's first or second season): South Park doesn't really bother me. What will bother me is what comes after it. The SP people has a sense of where and when to push the line and for what purpose (they don't always succeed in this, I'll grant you). I'm more worried about the imitators that just want to use foul language and crass routines just because they can.

[SeekAndFind]

Dirty Dancing

I'd be interested in reading your explanation as to why you would include this flick...

[Drango]

The Postman was a great film. kevin costner is a pant load but it’s still a great, great movie.

[JRandomFreeper]

Sylvester Stallone’s — Rocky a conservative movie ?

Only to the extent that the big capable guy keeps getting beat and keeps trying to be a nice guy because he's got obvious brain trauma. That fairly well sums up the alleged 'conservatives' we have in Congress.

/johnny

[donna]

I liked The Postman. I never understood what was so bad about it.

[GreyMountainReagan]

Forrest Gump was a pathetic comedy that was more like a fairy tale.

I wouldn’t consider it conservative either, with the AIDS glorification.

[eclecticEel]

Call me crazy, but Field of Dreams should be on the list.

Well yes, but this is supposed to be a list of good movies.

[ElayneJ]

I don’t see the conservative message in Forest Gump.

[GreyMountainReagan]

WOLVERINES!!!

nuff said.

[perfect_rovian_storm]

http://www.bebo.com/FlashBox.jsp?FlashBoxId=4509025973&;

(Warning, very explicit, but very funny language.)

[Cheesel]

Here, here for Barbershop... I was just going to include that one.

[irishtenor]

I found that one amusing.

[GreyMountainReagan]

ROCKY IV is pretty good also.